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When it first premiered as a mid-season replacement in the spring of 1985, Moonlighting seemed like a brilliant post-modern revival of the romantic...
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Find out more about Doug: Doug Krentzlin is a professional freelance writer, guest lecturer and actor living in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his cats, Buffy and Angel. Doug covers the classics of television, including comedies, dramas, mysteries, thrillers, horror, sci-fi, fantasy, animation and literary adaptations. He has also had articles published in the New York Post and Movie Maker Magazine. Doug can be reached here. |
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Frank Capra’s seminal holiday classic It’s a Wonderful Life is practically tied neck-to-neck with Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol...
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The Dick Van Dyke Show had one of the more unique sitcom premises of the early 60s: a behind-the-scenes look at writers for a comedy-variety TV show...
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How do you do a Christmas episode of a television show that’s set in the period B.C.? This was the challenge faced by filmmaker Sam Raimi for...
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According to Dave Thomas in his book SCTV: Behind the Scenes, when the cast and writers of SCTV set up shop at NBC, the network presented them with a...
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Let us take this opportunity to praise Seth Green who, when it comes to deadpan comedy, might well be this generation’s answer to Buster Keaton....
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In the 50s and early 60s, who would have dreamed that Leslie Neilsen, the dashing young leading man best known to television audiences as Swamp Fox on...
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Political correctness is to comedy what Kryptonite is to Superman. Nothing buzzkills a laugh more than someone (usually a white liberal) insisting...
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Unlike other anthology shows, such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits almost never did comedies. The one exception...
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For those unfamiliar with the term, a “shaggy dog story” is a joke with an elaborate set-up and a non-sequester punch line that, more...
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